Social Games: Between Club Penguin and Facebook, There Is Imbee

On that note, there are already a number of social networks for kids, including Club Penguin, where you can hang out with friends through Antarctic avatars, and Minyanville, a virtual world which helps teach kids about financial responsibility — but these sites are generally aimed at pre-teens. Meanwhile parents may be leery of letting tweens and younger teens use sites like Facebook and MySpace. In other words, there is a social network gap for the 8-14 crowd (a not inconsiderable cohort, numbering about 14 million or 4.5% of the U .S. population).